Artists: Place in the Sun

In the Southern California landscape, there
has sprung up like desert flowers a new variety of artists. They talk
of a new esthetic ("art as a symbolic medium is dead"), but these young
Angelenos are basically united only by a determination to prove that
creativity and innovation can flourish outside New York's hegemony.
"They are just isolated, friendly, ambitious young people who share a
fierce outlook," says James Monte, a curator at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art. "Because they live in a backwater, they had to remake
the whole scene."...